Presentiment Is That Long Shadow Quotes & Sayings

If you look at a column of ants on the march you will see that there are some who are stragglers or have lost their way. The column has no time for them; it goes on. Sometimes the stragglers die. But even this has no effect on the column. There is a little disturbance around the corpse, which is eventually carried off - and then it appears so light. And all the time the great busyness continues, and that apparent sociability, that rite of meeting and greeting which ants travelling in opposite directions, to and from their nest, perform without fail. So — V.S. Naipaul

This would be the stuff of songs and paintings and patterns on skin. — Victoria Collins

Now, whatever you do, don't say anything, because no one must know that Liberace is gay."
"Excuse me?" I said. "I'm eight. I know he's gay. — Alison Arngrim

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. — Nelson Henderson

Ruddy hell, the cold smacked my face with an iron spade! Now I knew why northerners go in for beards, woad, and body grease. — David Mitchell

But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces. — Monica Raymund

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians. — Sally Quinn

Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well. — Mac Miller

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor. — Novalis

Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn
Indicative that suns go down;
The notice to the startled grass
That darkness is about to pass. — Emily Dickinson

Losing my virginity was very boring. — Dale Peck

It was such rapture that it was pain. She adored him. — W. Somerset Maugham